[Python-Dev] Decoding incomplete unicode

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Walter Dörwald wrote:
> Both approaches have one problem: Error handling won't
> work for them. If the error handling is "replace", the decoder
> should return U+FFFD for the final trailing incomplete sequence
> in read(). This won't happen when read() never reads those
> bytes from the input stream.

Ok. So it really looks like a final flag on read is necessary.

> Well, I had to choose a subject. ;)

I still would prefer if the two issues were discussed separately.

Regards,
Martin